From b2c6d03b47979a7e058d4ffd824948e4a2a8f7c8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: 104fps <36814947+104fps@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2018 01:18:43 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] Update docs about post creation (#7138) Merge pull request 7138 --- .../_posts/0000-00-00-welcome-to-jekyll.markdown.erb | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/lib/site_template/_posts/0000-00-00-welcome-to-jekyll.markdown.erb b/lib/site_template/_posts/0000-00-00-welcome-to-jekyll.markdown.erb index 8d8f7c16..187a4d9b 100644 --- a/lib/site_template/_posts/0000-00-00-welcome-to-jekyll.markdown.erb +++ b/lib/site_template/_posts/0000-00-00-welcome-to-jekyll.markdown.erb @@ -6,7 +6,11 @@ categories: jekyll update --- You’ll find this post in your `_posts` directory. Go ahead and edit it and re-build the site to see your changes. You can rebuild the site in many different ways, but the most common way is to run `jekyll serve`, which launches a web server and auto-regenerates your site when a file is updated. -To add new posts, simply add a file in the `_posts` directory that follows the convention `YYYY-MM-DD-name-of-post.ext` and includes the necessary front matter. Take a look at the source for this post to get an idea about how it works. +Jekyll requires blog post files to be named according to the following format: + +`YEAR-MONTH-DAY-title.MARKUP` + +Where `YEAR` is a four-digit number, `MONTH` and `DAY` are both two-digit numbers, and `MARKUP` is the file extension representing the format used in the file. After that, include the necessary front matter. Take a look at the source for this post to get an idea about how it works. Jekyll also offers powerful support for code snippets: